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Was Einstein wrong? Chinese physicist Wu Yueliang claims universe flat not curved, created by ‘big break’ instead of ‘big bang’

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Einstein believed the universe was ‘curved’ due to be bending of space and time, but Chinese physicist Wu Yueliang claims it is in fact ‘flat’. Credit: Handout
Stephen Chenin Beijing

Albert Einstein was undoubtedly a genius, but he may have unintentionally duped us for the last century with his description of the universe, according to a new theory developed by Chinese physicist Wu Yueliang.

According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, released in 1915, space and time are curved. This is became any object with an inherent mass, for example a planet like earth, bends space and time and creates gravity, it asserts.

As such, any journey across the universe would be a journey through a distorted space and time.

But in his paper published in the latest issue of Physical Review D, a monthly journal run by the American Physical Society, Professor Wu Yueliang argues that the universe is in fact “flat”.

Wu, a leading theoretical physicist in China, serves as vice-president of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

He claims that space and time have always been flat, and have never been bent or distorted.

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